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There used to be a guy who sold paint for Hammarlund and (I think) some
Hallicrafters radios, but I believe he disappeared from the Internet a few years ago. If you take your cabinet to an auto paint supplier (not an auto parts store), they should be able to do a computer color match and mix up paint to match. If you have a sprayer, they'll give it to you in a quart can. If not, they can make up spray can(s) for you. I believe it cost twenty-some bucks the last time I did this, and one spray can was more than enough to do a cabinet. In practice, there may not be a single "correct" color for a given model. There could have been different paint runs that were not strictly identical. The Hallicrafters SX-28 front panel is an example. Some of them are "reely reely dark grey," others look pure black. When I took in one SX-28 panel for a color match, they did a test drip on the back of the panel to doublecheck the color and wrote "midnight black" next to it. Duh. I could have saved a few bucks by picking up a can of black Rustoleum at the hardware store. In any case, if you computer-match what's on your cabinet, then you have matched the color they were using in the factory on that day :-) The poor man's solution is to take your cabinet to the local auto parts store and pick out a spray can with the closest color (assuming there's a reasonable match). If it looks right to you, it'll probably look right to everyone else. Phil Nelson Phil's Old Radios http://antiqueradio.org/index.html |
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